Let's imagine that you're hiking with friends to the summit of a nearby mountain or hill, and you'd like to capture the excursion on film. Today, you would just need carry along a small camera — the ...
Reprinted in The collodion process and the ferrotype: three accounts, 1854-1872; edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, 1973. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...
THE advent of gelatin plates has almost driven collodion out of the photographic world. The wet collodion process has all along retained its position in some kinds of photo-mechanical work, but ...